Semantics and Feature Discovery via Confidence-Based Ensemble

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 168-189

  Goh, Kingshy ^a   Li, Beitao ^a   Chang, Edward Y ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Classification confidence; image annotation; Performance; semantics discovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962204456     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1062253.1062257     Document Type: Article

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